connect with emerging leaders,network with industry CEOs and executives,+ find new tools that will help you excel in your care career.

looking to leap out of YOUR COMFORT ZONE?

ready to take that next step?

Join the Acorn Mentoring Program: Bringing together emerging and established leaders who are looking to develop their leadership and management skills … Grow your leadership capacity and connect with leaders who will support.One-on-one. Every month.

When I think about my leadership journey over the past 12 years, I'm reminded of the people I came across, both managers and colleagues, who helped shape my career. I've had people in my professional life who inspired me, invested in me, and most of all believed in me ...

When I came into aged care as a “young” new graduate Registered Nurse, I thought that I had the knowledge and skills to do my job, howeverI wasn’t really prepared for the being a “supervisor or manager” ...

My personal journey into the world of mentoring was not an active choice. Although I had been unofficially coaching my team from the time we started together in late 2015, the idea of mentoring as an official and active process had never actually crossed my mind ...

WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY DO?

Acorn Network is focused on building awareness of the need to involve young professionals and highlight the opportunities for us all within the aged care industry.

Acorn Network is a frontline provider for these nurturing and connecting collaborative aged care networks. We work with emerging professionals, students, established leaders, leading organisations and the Australian public to build initiatives and promote opportunities that are needed, wanted, and sustainable. We believe more needs to be done for us all to meet other driven professionals in a youthful, fun, and leadership driven environments - such as running workshops, events, mentoring programs and presenting at conferences in Australia and internationally.

We want to support you to become the best leader and manager possible, it is the only way we can create collaborative workplaces for the future of aged care.

At the Acorn Network, our events are designed specifically with Generation Y in mind. We have events that they want, when they want it, in locations that are funky and fresh. Be it networking or workshops, we want to show the industry that young people are ready to be part of the future of aged care.

We need to create new ways of thinking and communicating if we are to inspire and engage our young leaders. Talk to us about youth initiatives that fit with your organisation's goals. Acorn Network is currently looking for organisations who are actively seeking new ways to engage young individuals, students, graduates, and emerging leaders.

Mentoring is something we all do. We find someone with more experience or knowledge in a certain area and learn from them. Be it a one-off coffee or in a formalised relationship, talk to Samantha today about career pathways, intergenerational understanding, and engaging younger workers today.

Samantha Bowen (Acorn Network founder) is available for professional speaking opportunities across Australia. She delivers practical and compelling presentations to challenge and educate you and your audience.

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